Preservation of properties under mixture

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-212

  Block, Henry W ^a   Li, Yulin ^a   Savits, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES;

CITED PAPERS; CONTINUOUS MIXTURES; FINITE MIXTURES; INCREASING FAILURE RATE; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; MIXTURE OF DISTRIBUTIONS; PRESERVATION OF PROPERTIES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038719001     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026996480317204X     Document Type: Article

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